Dana Carvey in San Diego

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Dana Carvey

Dana Carvey serves as the expert-in-residence in USA Networks new comedic half hour series First Impressions. The show pits Americas best amateur impressionists against each other in a weekly battle of celebrity impressions with Carvey mentoring each contestant. Emmy-award winning comedian Dana Carvey is best known for his Saturday Night Live such characters such as the Church Lady; Hans, of the Hans and Franz body building duo; Garth, Wayne Campbells (Mike Myers) Excellent Co-Host on popular sketch Waynes World, and Weekend Updates Grumpy Old Man. Dana has received praise for his comedic impersonations of political figures as Ex-President George Bush, H. Ross Perot, Jerry Brown, David Duke and Bob Dole. He also does impersonations of George Burns, Johnny Carson, Jimmy Stewart, John McLaughlin, Mickey Rooney, Casey Casem, and Regis Philbin. Carvey can also be seen in Alan Parkers The Road to, for Columbia Pictures, Richard and Lili Zanucks Clean Slate for MGM, and Twentieth Century Foxs Trapped in Paradise. His early film work includes his debut in This is Spinal Tap, Racing with the Moon, One of the Group where he portrayed Mickey Rooneys grandson, Blue Thunder with James Farentino, Tough Guys with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, and the comedy Opportunity Knocks. In 2004, he starred in The Master of Disguise, a comedy fantasy for the whole family which features Carvey in 36 different identities and speaking 14 different languages as the hapless and heroic Pistachio Disguisey. Carvey won an Emmy Award in 1993 for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.He has received a total of six Emmy nominations one of which was for a guest appearance on Larry Sanders Show. He was also honored with The American Comedy Award as Televisions Funniest Supporting Male in 1990 and 1991.